11 iphone factory employees try to commit suicide, 9 succeed - Polidicks

[quote=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia_pacific/10137101.stm]A ninth employee has jumped to his death at Taiwanese iPhone manufacturer Foxconn, China's state media reports. Xinhua said 21-year-old Nan Gang leapt from a four-storey factory in the early hours, soon after finishing work. Shortly after, it emerged that the death of a worker at a Foxconn plant in Hebei province earlier this year was also a suicide. A total of 11 Foxconn employees have tried to kill themselves this year - two have survived. The incidents have raised concerns about worker treatment at the site. The Associated Press quoted spokesman Arthur Huang as saying the company carried out social responsibility programmes to ensure workers' welfare. Earlier this week, Foxconn said it was enlisting counsellors and Buddhist monks to provide emotional support for its workers. Suicides Ten of the employees worked at Foxconn's campuses in Shenzhen, but on Friday it was revealed that a man who died at a factory in the northern Hebei province had also jumped from a building. The worker, identified by Xinhua as 19-year old Rong Bo, died in the city of Langtang early this year. A similar investigation into the death of 16-year old Wang Lingyan - who was found dead in a dormitory at the same site - concluded she died from cardiac arrest, government spokeswoman Wang Qiunu told Xinhua. Foxconn worker Sun Danyong killed himself last year Foxconn is part of Hon Hai Precision, the world's largest maker of consumer electronics, and employs 800,000 workers worldwide, mostly in China. The company has said it is taking the deaths seriously, even though a local government investigation did not blame working conditions. The spate of deaths comes after a Foxconn employee in charge of shipping Apple's iPhone prototype units killed himself last year after one of the units went missing. Apple said it had investigated accusations of bad employment practices by Foxconn stemming from a June 2006 complaint, and found the claims to be largely unfounded. Monk support However, it concluded that some employees were working more than Foxconn's mandated maximum during peak production times, and as many as a quarter of them were not taking at least one day off a week. US-based China Labour Watch has criticised Foxconn's "military-style administration and harsh working conditions" and called on the company to "initiate a thoroughgoing analysis of life on its production lines". Foxconn says it has hired 100 counsellors and invited monks to help workers at a new Employee Care Centre and trained its medical staff to provide emotional support. It has also introduced a reward system for employees who spot colleagues with emotional problems, and a hotline for workers.[/quote] TL;DR: Workers commit suicide at iphone sweatshop due to being treated like shit

[url]http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6cf3f994-4437-11df-b327-00144feab49a.html[/url] hey guys, do it like us frenchies

Suicide is what they call it when they try to steal an iPhone and get caught.

This happened last year when a tiawanese or chinese guy killed themselves for losing the 3G prototype. What the fuck is it with iPhones and fucking suicide!!!

Foxconn is such shit.

They all got offered Ipads, probably the reason why they tried to kill themselves.

They did it because they were making Apple stuff... That shit is so depressing.

[QUOTE=/B/rother;22098772]They did it because they were making Apple stuff... That shit is so depressing.[/QUOTE] thanks for trying to start a flame war

A lot of sweatshop employees commit suicide, it just dosen't get reported. If it's an Apple sweatshop, well then, thats terrible and should never happen again!!!

That's sad really. :/ [QUOTE=PiXeN;22098543][url]http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6cf3f994-4437-11df-b327-00144feab49a.html[/url] hey guys, do it like us frenchies[/QUOTE] FT.com articles are only available to registered users and subscribers

[QUOTE=Kazumi;22098845]That's sad really. :/ FT.com articles are only available to registered users and subscribers[/QUOTE] But it's visible from google :( [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9com[/url] Staff Suicides part

These guys make my motherboard :c

They make a lot of computing equipment

-snip-, wrong thread....

China sucks....

[QUOTE=codenamecueball;22098835]A lot of sweatshop employees commit suicide, it just dosen't get reported. If it's an Apple sweatshop, well then, thats terrible and should never happen again!!![/QUOTE] Yeah. Its an apple sweatshop, they're one of the biggest names in the world, of course suicides in their workshops get reported.

Its inevitable, the exploitation of workers has been going on ever since work existed.

Obviously Apple products are powered by dark magic and trapped souls of the sacrificed workers.

[QUOTE=Asmaedus;22098868]These guys make my motherboard :c[/QUOTE] And your graphics card. and almost everything else in your computer. Just because it doenst have a Foxconn sticker on it, doesn't mean they didn't make them.

Oh crikey, my fan says Foxconn on it. From the name I presumed they just made cooling systems. (Hence conn)

LOL APPLE SUCKS SO MUCH PEOPLE DIE derp [editline]04:31PM[/editline] Really, stop that.

Apple have a deep dark secret hidden in their factories, the workers who ask too many questions are sent to work in the "basement" but are never seen again. To the Tardis [img]http://www.fiatforum.com/gallery/data/500/tardis-large.jpg[/img]

[quote]A total of 11 Foxconn employees have tried to kill themselves this year[/quote] [quote]The incidents have raised concerns about worker treatment at the site.[/quote] Oh. Who would've thought.

What a wonderfull world

[QUOTE=Devodiere;22098557]Suicide is what they call it when they try to steal an iPhone and get caught.[/QUOTE] They "accidentally" fall off the roof?

i can guarentee so many more will probably commit suicide at other companies. Facepunch can't get to grips with the fact that their own pretty little perfect companies have shit like this going on. Apple probably has the least out of everyone.

I find it funny how they are made in sweatshops and sold for a fortune.

Welcome to the world of TNCs and exploitation.

[QUOTE=johanz;22100054]I find it funny how they are made in sweatshops and sold for a fortune.[/QUOTE] I also find it funny how they have no technical advantages over a regular laptop and are sold for a fortune.

[QUOTE=johanz;22100054]I find it funny how they are made in sweatshops and sold for a fortune.[/QUOTE] Most things are, unfortunately. Honestly, hearing about anything to do with sweatshops is fucking depressing